When Thanksgiving approaches there is another November tradition...Deer Hunting Season, and to be specific firearm time.
It is hard to believe that this is the third year going out (2017 & 2018) and once again I wasn't too successful. However, for the first, I did see a deer while hunting. First, I decided I was going to the Cabin on Wednesday, but I ended up leaving before dawn as Dad needed to meet with Dwight about the spring.
So, I got to go out Wednesday evening and I stopped by two different deer stands. First was at the junction where I spent a few minutes. The second was on top of Gillenwater Ridge, it was the one I spent most of my time last year. I saw animals...it was just squirrels.
On Thursday morning, I got up before dawn and headed up to that first deer stand and sat there quietly for three hours. So, I decided to get down to walk around and sit a little, so I headed up towards the other gate and sat down. As I sat there all a sudden a deer came out of the woods. I will admit I got excited, but I calmly scooped the deer and unfortunately, it was young, had no horns and was a doe...which means I couldn't shoot it. I mean it was obvious it was young because it wasn't too afraid of me. I mean it looked a lot like Bambi.
For the afternoon, I went up the hollow in front of the Cabin, mainly because I had tweaked my back, so I didn't want to go too far. I found a good place and in between all the squirrels I heard what might have been a deer. I never saw it, but this was my most successful days out yet. As I like to say if it was easy it would be called shopping not hunting.
This year I am going to practice with the bow and will be ready for bow season to resume in December.
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